If many boys lack social intelligence, the ability to express emotions, an interest in reading literature, and so on we should compare them to boys wh...
Those piglets may be getting too big to suckle. Note that she isn't offering the children her teats. They probably have little sharp teeth by now. O U...
A pleasant, law-abiding person in a more-or-less democratic state can live without constantly worrying about the State and its malevolent agents. I al...
When the United States was a brand new nation, it had possession of the land between the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi River, but it didn't reall...
There are many bits that have not been taken by private individuals, but the collection of bits -- taken or not -- are pretty much under the control o...
I can't tell what you are driving at. There are two Declarations with which I am familiar. One is the Alma Ata Declaration on Health in 1978; the othe...
You are talking about the UK. Similar problems occur in the US. But given the state's dominance, what is the solution? Ineffective, abusive, and unres...
"Administrative hearings" are not judicial, as I understand them. They are civil proceedings held by agencies. For instance, if you challenge a denial...
Should the government suspect that some recipients have received too much in benefits, there are two obvious remedies: The first is to improve the con...
I've ridden in 3 different Teslas owned by LYFT drivers. Don't ask me why someone who can afford a Tesla is driving for LYFT, but nonetheless... The f...
83 -- not that old if you are still in good shape which Bernie seems to be. At least he is articulately and energetically criticizing Trusk, the corro...
Is curbing one's enthusiasm a categorical imperative? There are times when it would make sense. Seinfeld had some categorical imperatives that I can t...
One of the worst things Trump has said: It's rock-bottom bad. It is nationalist paranoia. It's jingoism*** in the extreme. Is the EU a phantom in a ca...
The Nazis called them "useless eaters". Thinking of a nation as a business is as wrong as thinking of a business as a family. The scales are totally u...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Grammar_Nazi_Icon_Text.svg/440px-Grammar_Nazi_Icon_Text.svg.png Grammar nazis have no more t...
In order to bring The Philosophy Forum into line with US Federal Guidelines on language, here is a list of words*** currently being scrubbed from USG ...
"States Rights", to my mind, is all about any mandate from the Federal government -- SCOTUS, COTUS, OR POTUS that seems to correct inequity / discrimi...
The address on which the graph is located is https://usafacts.org/explainers/what-does-the-us-government-do/agency/us-department-of-education/ The gra...
The budget for the Department of Education was $268 B at the end of the Biden Administration. HERE IS A GRAPH of how the money was spent. $161B, the l...
I was thinking "Rocket Man" but it wasn't done in Nashville and it wasn't on Yellow Sun Records. It was on Rocket Records. There is no Yellow Sun Reco...
I look at the news every day, but I think it was Emerson -- might have been Thoreau -- who said that reading a newspaper once a month was sufficient. ...
@"Shawn" https://media.newyorker.com/cartoons/67a626e97668c19ae1a31227/master/w_1280,c_limit/TCB-110065.jpg “You certainly have a peculiar sense of hu...
An entirely appropriate question. Massive mobilization (spontaneous / organized) takes time, focus, and energy. Trump began his current maladministrat...
In a top-down response, the military could refuse to obey an illegal order. It could conceivably refuse to obey a legal but unpalatable order. We don'...
Remember that Gandhi began his non-violent efforts in South Africa in 1906, and in India in 1920, achieving success (in ending British rule of India) ...
Well, the National Guard is there, along with other parts of the civil and military establishment constituting the government, but it is part of the e...
a kilometer is, roughly 5555.5 bananas in length. You could also illustrate a kilometer in kielbasas, erect horse penises, adult carp, or road kill sq...
It wouldn't be all that difficult to render the judicial system powerless. First, the legal system is effective when the people agree to follow it. Se...
Very Unhelpful Metrics (VUM): examples: I've never seen one of the bombs go off, never mind all of them at once; I've never seen 140 football fields (...
Does this morning's meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump / Vance, which amounted to an ugly (and highly undiplomatic ) ambush -- on air, no less -- rep...
I've always been opposition, distinction, and separateness, chosen and otherwise. I was an early conscientious objector in response to the Vietnam dra...
The Trump administration sent out 5800 emails to agencies today cancelling contracts which provided polio vaccinations, AIDS treatments, Tuberculosis ...
The left uses the phrase "systemic racism". I'm not fond of the term "systemic". I prefer the idea that racism has been "structured" -- meaning built....
True; chickens are part of the saurischian dinosaurs. We can be grateful that full-sized T Rexes didn't survive. There was an eastern grey lady turkey...
Eggs are suddenly expensive! Fucking chickens cutting back on production just to raise their stock holdings. Greedy clucks. I bought a dozen eggs at a...
Sad to say, it doesn't. The Army Corps of Engineers and Minneapolis Park Police made sure of that. A road runs through it so it's easy to police; the ...
They signed off their radio show with: "Ray Goulding reminding you all to write if you get work. And Bob Elliot reminding you to hang by your thumbs."...
True enough, Youtube videos, second-hand book stores, and the like are affordable, but that isn't the problem. There are a number of barriers: First i...
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